AFR in Brief

Contacts: Ulrike Kohl, Marie-Claude Marx, Asaël Rouby, Helena Burg

The AFR Grant Scheme (Aides à la Formation-Recherche) of the National Research Fund Luxembourg (FNR) supports PhD and postdoctoral research training projects in Luxembourg and abroad, up to 4 years for PhDs and up to 2 years for postdocs.

The main objective of the scheme is to improve the general working conditions and career perspectives of researchers, by giving early stage researchers access to work contracts and supplementary training opportunities.

The AFR funding scheme is in line with the principles advocated in the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.

Moreover, the AFR scheme promotes public/private partnerships by paying an incentive for research projects carried out in collaboration with the private sector.

The AFR programme has no thematic limitations and is open to all researchers, regardless of their nationality, desirous to engage into research training in Luxembourg or abroad. In the selection process, the interest of the project in the context of Luxembourg R&D will nevertheless be evaluated.

Open Calls

List of ongoing AFR Grants per Domain

(in chronological order, last update September 2011)

• Life Sciences, Biology and Medicine
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Law, Economics, Finance
• Materials, Physics and Engineering
• Mathematics
• Environmental and Earth Sciences